Diablo + Hellfire

First and Last: This game should be played, start to finish, by every gamer on the planet. Period. You need the story line, and you need to experience how it was implemented. Period. Are the graphics and mechanics dated? Yeah, they're old as piss. However, compare them to the other trash that was being released at the time and you'll see why this was the first viral game in existence, with hundreds of thousands of people playing it online (at the same time) during it's hay-day. The first game to top that record? Diablo II. AFTER you have completed the story line at least once, you should: 1) Consider trying to beat the game with different characters. The game mechanics change significantly by character type. One person might find it simple to play one character type, yet have serious challenges with another character type. 2) Consider downloading and installing Belzebub (Diablo HD). It has updated graphics, better screen sizes, AND has all of the original content that Blizzard ditched hacked back in to the game. You can think of Belzebub as the 'Director's cut' of Diablo. https://mod.diablo.noktis.pl/ 3) Consider purchasing and installing Hellfire, the only 'official' expansion for Diablo ever released. I say 'official', because Blizzard didn't release it, they authorized Sierra to release it. https://diablo.fandom.com/wiki/Diablo:_Hellfire I highly recommend going through Belzebub at least once before playing Hellfire, though, to get the complete experience. With any luck, by the time you get done playing vanilla Diablo and Belzebub, GOG will have released Hellfire as well. :D Hellfire adds a couple of new character classes (which were actually re-introduced in Belzebub). It also includes a few new dungeons, and tons of new quests, including the infamous Cow Quest (NOT the cow level). 4) IF you ever get bored enough (which I never have) you can seek out and play various mods for Diablo. If I recall, the Hellfire expansion enables you to use mods, YMMV.

Runs great

There's a lot of anti-Blizzard sentiment going around of late, mostly directed at Activision Blizzard, their PARENT company, and it shows in some of the reviews here. Is the game dated? Yes. But what GOG has done here is simply bring us the classic game with all it's strengths (and weaknesses) in tact. It plays just as I remember, it looks fantastic om my PC, and it doesn't try to be anything else but what it was in 1996. If you loved this game back then, as I did, you'll love it now. Don't listen to the players who aren't here to offer a constructive review, but to instead gripe about the price and the "money grab" from Activision Blizzard. They made this arrangement, along with GOG, and they both have to see some profit for Deckard's sake! I, for one, think this game is well worth the price of admission!

It really is a great game, but it's a shame it doesn't come with the hellfire expansion. If it had the expansion I'd give it 5 stars, but the replayability is very limited without it.

If the expansion isn't included, I don't feel its worth buying. The same is going to be true if Diablo 2 ever pops up. If it doesn't have the expansion, what's the point at this point? We're all used to the expansions to these games to the extent that they feel like standard issue to most of us. I want my monk class. Thank you for bringing back this game, none the less.